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Atlanta, Ga, Us

• Provided consulting and advisory services for small/medium firms in the identity, fraud & compliance space.• Collaborate with senior executives on organizational and product strategy to drive growth and success.• Developed innovative solutions to address complex challenges in the industry.

Lake Oswego, Oregon, Us

- Responsible for the global marketing, strategic partnerships, strategy, roadmap, execution of Vesta's global portfolio -$100MM annual focused in North America, LAC, APAC and EU- Led the cloud transformation of Vesta s legacy platform and deployed across all regions compliant with all data privacy and compliance requirements- Established a strategic roadmap for product innovation enabling launch of multiple customers across different verticals globally.- Established a strategic partnership discipline, leading to global partnerships with Mastercard, Stripe, Worldpay, Discover, Fiserv etc. to drive channel partner and data partner engagements.- Hired and setup a brand-new marketing practice, reestablished Vesta s global presence in the market and drove strategic demand and lead generation programs across all regions.- Created a $70MM pipeline through organic and inorganic marketing activities within 12 months of marketing launch with several marquee brands across multiple verticals.- Established Vesta s brand position within the transactional fraud analysis space leading with analysts, leading presentations at conferences and winning multiple analyst awards.- Led several cross functional operational initiatives to streamline end to end GTM e.g., lead qualification automation, deal reviews, alliance partnership programs, customer success processes etc.

Atlanta, Ga, Us

- Responsible for the product strategy and execution of the next generation identity, fraud, analytics, compliance, payments and mobile products and solutions- Influence and drive partnerships & alliances for the entire portfolio as well as M&A activity

- Drive the overall product roadmap, strategy and engineering development of the entire product line (including white label product offerings) for the startup - Visikard.- Responsible for the architecture and engineering for the product, managing local and remote resources.- Responsible for PMO (local and remote), promoting best practices in Agile and Kanban methodologies.- Responsible for managing development budget and prioritizing features that can be showcased for collaborative/fund raising efforts.- Responsible for business development and forging partnerships for various new features and capabilities in the platform e.g., payments, banking, mobile commerce etc.- Senior member of the core strategy team involved in steering direction for the overall product, pricing, market placement and fund raising.

CoFounder and responsible for the strategy, technology and operations for an online lending marketplace startup - LendLift.

Brookfield, Wisc., Us

- Drive the product roadmap and development of the next generation loyalty, payments, marketing and mobile commerce solutions.- Jointly developed a mobile commerce strategy that drives more than $1 million in revenue and allows 3rd party technology providers, tier 1 merchants (retail, QSR and CSR/Petro) and SMB's to enable gift card, offers and mobile payments solutions for consumers. - Senior member of the Innovation team developing the next generation product strategy - with focus on Universal Commerce (enabling consumer and merchants with a seamless buying and selling process that handles consumer interaction, deals, loyalty and analytics).- Drive solutions with key ignition clients in the retail, petroleum and QSR space - focusing on specific areas within the overall Universal Commerce spectrum.- Senior member of the team responsible for creating, launching and commercializing OfferWise - a card linked technology marketing and loyalty platform that enables offer/deal redemption at merchant locations in real time.- Contributed to the expanded adoption for OfferWise through enablement across 2 million merchants and 50+ marketing partners and providers e.g., Foursquare, Microsoft Bing, Google Offers etc.- Managed and productized key features for the OfferWise technology platform e.g., returns handling, fraud detection and prevention, production restrictions and inclusions etc.- Identified as a high potential leader and selected to participate in the First Data Leadership Summit training program.- Participated in several technical and business evaluations for potential acquisitions and partnerships.

Espoo, Southern Finland, Fi

- Managed cross functional (local, remote and outsourced) teams that build several B2B and B2C prototype solutions, executed internal and external trials, collected feedback that led to enhancements and improvements, productized and eventually launched solutions to the market.- Extensive experience in vendor management - both on-site and remote through the product development life-cycle.- Promoted process improvements by introducing Agile methodologies within the development teams, coached, managed and monitored overall progress through multiple projects, both as a Scrum Master and as a Product Owner.- Helped coordinate service launch with operators worldwide like Vodafone, Swisscom, Orange, China Mobile, PCCW, Telenor, T-Mobile etc. These were multi-million dollar contracts with forward facing penalties on deliveries that did not meet time or quality standards as per the contract.- Responsible for technical delivery of the first fully device integrated consumer push email solution (Nokia Messaging) on the Nokia Maemo N900 device. Streamlined the entire delivery process resulting in the launch of integrated push email (email.nokia.com) on all of Nokia’s devices to operators worldwide. ($25M annual with over 500K users).- Helped in the technical due-diligence as part of the M&A process.- Developed new product feasibility and strategy for multiple products – including resource forecasting, cost projections and revenue forecasting. - Managed collaborative relationship with multiple partners (e.g., Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Microsoft, Twitter etc.) and vendors to create integrated solutions for better overall consumer experience.

Newark, Nj, Us

- Designed integration architecture for messaging, digital rights management, mobile internet, java functionality and Application framework on the Series60/Symbian platform. - Defined strategy and integration road-map for messaging, mobile internet, Java/J2ME and entertainment applications (audio and gaming applications).- Responsible for the delivery of messaging and data synchronization applications and frameworks on the Panasonic X700 and Panasonic X800 products.- Subject matter expert for Messaging, Data Synchronization, Mobile Internet, DRM, Security, Java and Application Framework architecture in Series60/Symbian phone platforms.

Chicago, Illinois, Us

- Senior member of development team engaged in application development (wireless and desktop) for Motorola’s handset portfolio. - Involved in designing and developing applications (push email, Wireless Village, 3DES secure applications) in J2ME, C++ and Win32 environments.

Developed diagnostic software for the FibreBridge product - used to configure the hardware and perform troubleshooting.

Developed SNMP based software for the networking group at Tata Honeywell Ltd - use to monitor the high speed connection between Tata Honeywell and Honeywell USA.

Master Of Business Administration (Mba), Marketing, Leadership, Strategy And Finance

Masters Of Science, Computer Science

Bachelor'S Of Engineering, Computer Engineering